Uncovering Ancient St. Louis Using artifacts, the video portrays early life in the area around St. Louis. A good video to show students how archaeoglists work and how they draw conclusions.Author(s): No creator set

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5. Leave A Message After The Beep (Listen Up & Learn) Learn Italian with LearnItalianPod.com – Episode #5 of the super-useful “Listen Up & Learn” lesson series is entitled “Leave A Message After The Beep”. Listen to Massimo leaving a message to his friend Antonio’s answering machine and train your ears to listen and truly understand the Italian language! – Then, after listening to Massimo’s narration, [...]Author(s): LearnItalianPod.com

Journeys Through Sociology: Elena Zdravomyslova In this interview Dr. Elena Zdravomyslova (European University at St. Petersburg) discusses the intersection of her own biography and the development of Soviet and later Post Soviet sociology. She also talks about the challenges of building Gender Studies and supporting qualitative research efforts in Russia.
This is part of a series of interviews with the 22 members of the Executive Committee of the International Sociological Association (ISA). The interviews can be found at the ISA website:
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What's ahead for the Fed The Federal Reserve held its last meeting for 2010 announcing no major policy changes. Analysts weigh in on what course the Fed will likely take in 2011.Author(s): No creator set

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RES.12-000 Evolution of Physical Oceanography (MIT) Evolution of Physical Oceanography was created to mark the career of Henry M. Stommel, the leading physical oceanographer of the 20th Century and a longtime MIT faculty member. The authors of the different chapters were asked to describe the evolution of their subject over the history of physical oceanography, and to provide a survey of the state-of-the-art of their subject as of 1980. Many of the chapters in this textbook are still up-to-date descriptions of active scientific fields, and all ofAuthor(s): Warren, Bruce A.,Wunsch, Carl

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RES.6-005 Understanding Lasers and Fiberoptics (MIT) Lasers are essential to an incredibly large number of applications. Today, they are used in bar code readers, compact discs, medicine, communications, sensors, materials processing, computer printers, data processing, 3D-imaging, spectroscopy, navigation, non-destructive testing, chemical processing, color copiers, laser "shows", and in the military. There is hardly a field untouched by the laser. But what exactly is so unique about lasers that makes them so effective? This brief videoAuthor(s): Ezekiel, Shaoul

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Parts of a Circle This video is the introduction concepts of the parts of a circle. It discusses the center, radius and the diameter. It then differentiates between a congruent and concentric circles.This video is in lecture format with an instructor standing at the dry erase board. Run time 01:22.

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History of Easter Eggs In this Holiday Foods video clip, we learn about what people traditionally eat on Easter Sunday. One major food that is associated with Easter is eggs. Famous Fat Dave talks about the history of the egg and its connection to Easter. (3:47)Author(s): No creator set

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Haiti Poem: Ganthier by Kwame Dawes Poem by Kwame Dawes
Images by Andre Lambertson
Music by Kevin Simmonds
Editing by Robin Bell
I thought, he said of the wife
who lasted six months, before
the news of this treachery of the
blood, before he lay on his back,
the bottles of toxic drugs and poison
for rats lined up on his sill,
before the simple equation
of fatigue with this world plus
a body falling to ruin, a heart
shattered by a woman's laughter,
before all of this, she had left,
that wife, that angel, the women
of beauty who knAuthor(s): No creator set

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What is Ahead for Financial Markets? Perspectives from Jeremy Siegel and Jacob Wallenberg After a terrible August, when the U.S. stock market appeared to be headed for the pits, October 1 saw a massive rally that sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average soaring above 14,000. The following day, however, stocks began to fall again, mainly due to a sharp drop in home sales. In short, Wall Street still seems to be sending out mixed signals. What will be the long-term effects of the Fed's decision to cut interest rates? Will the U.S. economy move past the sub-prime mortgage mess? How will thAuthor(s): No creator set